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Management of virtual and physical network inventoriesManagement of virtual and physical network inventories description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20090164619, Management of virtual and physical network inventories. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/921,282, filed Aug. 1, 2001 by Cerami et al. and entitled “Management of Virtual and Physical Network Inventories,” which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,467,193 on Dec. 16, 2008, which is hereby incorporated by reference, as if set forth in full in this document, for all purposes, and which claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/222,791, filed Aug. 1, 2000 by Cerami et al. and entitled “Management of Virtual and Physical Network Inventories,” which is hereby incorporated by reference, as is set forth in full in this document, for all purposes. This application is related to the following applications and patents: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/921,285, filed Aug. 1, 2001 by Cerami et al. and entitled “PROVISIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTO-DISCOVERING CUSTOMER PREMISES EQUIPMENT IN ACTIVATING xDSL” (issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,219,124); U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/921,294, filed Aug. 1, 2001 by Cerami et al. and entitled “PERFORMANCE MODELING IN A VDSL NETWORK” (issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,058,707); U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/921,276, filed Aug. 1, 2001 by Cerami et al. and entitled “FAULT MANAGEMENT IN A VDSL NETWORK” (issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,981,039); No. 09/921,277, filed Aug. 1, 2001 by Cerami et al. and entitled “FAULT MANAGEMENT IN A VDSL NETWORK” (issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,134,135); U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/921,283, filed Aug. 1, 2001 by Cerami et al. and entitled “PROACTIVE REPAIR PROCESS IN THE xDSL NETWORK (WITH A VDSL FOCUS)” (issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,901,530); U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/021,456, filed Dec. 23, 2004 by Cerami et al. and entitled “PROACTIVE REPAIR PROCESS IN THE xDSL NETWORK (WITH A VDSL FOCUS)”; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/921,275, filed Aug. 1, 2001 by Cerami et al. and entitled “PROACTIVE SERVICE REQUEST MANAGEMENT AND MEASUREMENT” (issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,032,016); and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/921,274, filed Aug. 1, 2001 by Cerami et al. and entitled “LINKING ORDER ENTRY PROCESS TO REALTIME NETWORK INVENTORIES AND CAPACITIES” (issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,464,164), the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference. The present invention relates to the management of virtual and physical network inventories and more specifically the management of virtual and physical network inventories of a xDSL network. As networks providing digital services to consumers are built out to accommodate more consumers, the networks become more complicated and harder to manage. Additionally, as companies increase capital expenditures to build out these networks, more emphasis is focused on increasing the sales of services that are provided through a network. In a typical operation, a network may provide data services to and from an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and a consumer. Thus, a user typically accesses the Internet through the network connection. Additionally, video services may be offered through the network to provide a consumer with additional choices such as cable T.V. from a satellite or cable provider. With the increase in services, continual build-out of the network, and the exponentially increasing number of consumers added to these services, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage the assets of the network. Companies include departments such as sales, engineering, and marketing that need different views of the same network inventory. However, even if the departments interact with the inventory of the network, the inventory is not a complete and up-to-date version. For example, a sales department takes orders from customers on the assumption that the network is physically able to offer service to the customers. However, the sales department takes the order without considering network capacity and/or network quality. Additionally, the marketing department is used to forecast an amount of capacity to add to the network. The marketing department, however, does not include in-progress network additions or pending sales in their marketing forecast and thus, the inventory data used for forecasting capacity is incomplete. Therefore, forecasts to add capacity to the network may be flawed and inaccurate. The engineering department designs and builds out the network after receiving the marketing forecast. In building out the network, the engineering department plans and installs physical network elements, and assigns virtual paths through the network elements to enable service to customers. For example, installing physical network elements includes installing network elements and associated cards/ports in the network elements that enable new customers to receive service. After being installed, identifiers for the new ports/cards are manually entered into an inventory data base and manually synched between the existing network elements in the inventory data base. Additionally, Interoffice Facilities and Fibers (IOF) identifiers are manually inventoried. Thus, identifiers for devices such as DSLAMs, routers, fiber components, and other components of the network are manually entered. Also, management of the assignments of logical paths in the network is manual and are repeatedly inputted for each network element in the logical path. Thus, the management of inventory and the access of inventory are manual processes. Additionally, although engineering may manually inventory physical and logical network designs, the inventory is not accessed by other departments when making decisions. For example, the sales department approves orders for service without referencing any capacity or planned information. Basically, the sales department approves any order without verifying if the network has capacity to provide the service. Also, the sales department does not distinguish between different services that may be offered through the network. Thus, network capacity may be filled with less profitable services. Additionally, the marketing department produces capacity forecasts without the knowledge of in-progress network additions. Thus, the departments are making decisions that are dependent on actions from each group without information of the other group\'s actions. This leads to inefficient management of network inventory. In one embodiment, a method for managing a network element inventory for a video and data network is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes self-discovering a physical network inventory of the video and data network. Additionally, a logical network inventory of the video and data network is self-discovered. Further, a planned network inventory of the video and data network is provided. Once the planned, logical, and physical network inventories are collected, the physical network inventory, logical network inventory, and planned network inventory are loaded into the network element inventory. After loading, synchronization of the physical network inventory, logical network inventory, and planned network inventory in the network element inventory is performed. A view is provided using the synchronized physical network inventory, logical network inventory, and planned network inventory when a request for a view of the network element inventory is received. In one embodiment, the video and data network comprises a type of digital subscriber line (xDSL) network, such as a Very high bit rate DSL (VDSL) network. A further understanding of the nature and advantages of the invention herein may be realized by reference of the remaining portions in the specification and the attached drawings. 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